Page 6 - 2018 Annual Report Taiwan Intellectual Property Office

examiners for the first time to the Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks in India to share experiences in examination practices. TIPO also held the Seminar on the IP
Landscape in Southeast Asian Countries in Taipei. A number of trademark officials from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam were invited to talk at the event, shared with the participants their respective experiences in legal regimes, examination practices, and law enforcement status quo concerning trademarks. In addition, the Philippine examiners arrived in Taiwan for the TIPO- IPOPHL Trademark Examination Practices Workshop. Furthermore, TIPO researched and published the IPR regimes, practices, registration, and related procedures in six Southeast Asian countries to help domestic businesses build their IPR portfolios in the major countries listed under the New Southbound Policy.
It is worth noting that TIPO got the funding from APEC for the first time to organize the 2018 APEC Workshop on the Best Licensing Practices of Collective Management Organizations (CMOs) to MSMEs in October 2018. Seven experts from Australia, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and other countries, and 27 representatives from 13 APEC economies were invited to share and discuss the latest CMO licensing and the latest trends. In addition to strengthening Taiwan’s international visibility, it also helped establish an optimized environment for copyright licensing.
Driven by a strong sense of dedication, all of my colleagues at TIPO continued to provide professional IP services and together we accomplished many important tasks in 2018. I am grateful for the support and assistance that came from different sectors here and abroad. Moving forward, our industries are faced with more significant challenges, and therefore I will continue to work together with my dedicated and hardworking staff to optimize examination quality and efficiency and simplify patent and trademark administrative remedy process. Through amending patent and trademark laws and regulations and harmonizing with international IP systems, our IPR legal regime will be further consolidated and the environment for better innovation and IPR protection to residents can be established. Customer services will also be enhanced through substantiating global patent search resources and industrial patent knowledge platforms. The industries can use such services to keep up with the latest technology trends and increase their international competitiveness. To help domestic industries’ willingness to develop their overseas IP strategies and portfolios, TIPO will continue to deepen IPR international cooperation with major IP offices and Southeast and South Asian countries.
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